Scientists have discovered that the secrets to pterosaur success lie in the microscopic architecture of their bones.

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Lakefront Brewery is hosting Rare Bird Market, which will focus more on obscure goods like bone jewelry, chain mail armor, ...

Researchers suggest that studying the biological designs of prehistoric creatures could advance materials science.

You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

Nudds described this equation in a 2007 paper published in the Journal of Avian Biology, in which he describes the scaling of bird wing parameters with respect to body mass. But in this hypothetical ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...